POP/ROCK - Oct. 30, 2001

Rolling Stones Planning 2002 World Tour

The Rolling Stones are in the early planning stages for a world tour next year to commemorate their 40th anniversary, a spokeswoman for the band said Monday.

It was in 1962 in London that Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian Jones launched a raunchy, blues-minded band that would eventually become rock royalty with a deep catalog of classic songs including “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “Honky Tonk Women” and “Start Me Up.”

The Stones last toured the United States in 1999, staging their shows in arenas instead of stadiums for the first time in two decades.

It’s too early to say what type of venues or productions are on tap for the upcoming road venture, the band’s spokeswoman said.

Stones singer Jagger and guitarist Richards performed together Oct. 27 at “The Concert for New York City,” a benefit show at Madison Square Garden, highlights of which will be rebroadcast at 10 p.m. Wednesday on CBS.

Jagger also has a solo album due in stores Nov. 20, and on Thanksgiving, ABC will air “Being Mick,” an hourlong documentary-style show on the rocker’s life and art.

MUSIC

Van Cliburn Reschedules Appearance

New West Symphony, which had to postpone the opening of its season last month when Van Cliburn refused to make the trip here after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, says the famed pianist has rescheduled his performance for next year.

Van Cliburn will appear with the orchestra in Thousand Oaks Feb. 22, playing an all-Tchaikovsky program.

Symphony officials said he will forgo a fee; instead, they will donate $10,000 to the American Red Cross in his name.

Gonzales Wins West Coast Opera Regionals

Amid a field of eight West Coast singers in the Metropolitan Opera National Auditions, Gregorio Gonzales, a baritone from San Diego, took top honors in the western regional finals held at USC Saturday.

Along with winning $5,800, Gonzalez will represent the region in the national finals, to be held in New York in the spring.

Also taking home cash awards were second-and third-prize winners sopranos Vanessa Salaz of Arizona and Jordan Gumucio of Placentia.

MOVIES & TV

Announcement of Casting Decisions

Kenneth Branagh will play the role of the flamboyant witchcraft professor Gilderoy Lockhart in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” which starts shooting in December.... Retiring Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas) has a nonspeaking role as a politician in the upcoming film “Gods and Generals,” a prequel to the 1993 Civil War epic “Gettysburg.” ... Charles Dance, James D’Arcy and Sophia Myles will star in a four-hour adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “Nicholas Nickleby” that will be shown on the Bravo channel in January.... Morgan Freeman will star in the film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel “Dreamcatcher.” ... John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, who haven’t worked together since the 1995 Quentin Tarantino-directed “Pulp Fiction,” will team in a military suspense thriller called “Basic.”

QUICK TAKES

A retooled version of “The Education of Randy Newman” is scheduled to open Oct. 24, 2002, at A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle. The musical premiered last year at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa.... Australian director Baz Luhrmann (“Strictly Ballroom,” “Moulin Rouge”) plans to bring his 10-year-old Sydney production of Puccini’s “La Boheme”--updated to 1957--to Broadway in late 2002. He hopes to stage it in Los Angeles first, but has yet to line up a theater.... Greg Marcks, a Florida State University student from Los Angeles, has won the top prize of $10,000 at the 2001 Angelus Awards, presented by Family Theater Productions of Hollywood to recognize student filmmaking.... “The West Wing” star Martin Sheen is definitely bringing home a prize Sunday. Even if he doesn’t win an Emmy Award, he’s being given the Peacemaker award that evening in Beverly Hills from Physicians for Social Responsibility, a group working to avert nuclear war.... The British American Industry Award dinner honoring Sir Michael Caine, which had been planned for next week, has been rescheduled for Jan. 24 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel after the actor said he thought it was inappropriate to receive an award at this time.... L.A Theatre Works, which was left without a Los Angeles outlet when KCRW-FM (89.9) phased out its “KCRW Playhouse” series last spring, has signed an agreement with XM Satellite Radio. The audio theater group will broadcast 80 programs over two years on the satellite network’s “On Broadway” Channel 28.... Orson Welles’ famous 1938 radio adaptation of “The War of the Worlds” will be broadcast at 9 p.m. Wednesday on KNX-AM (1070).... Programming on the ABC television station in New York City, WABC, is now available to everyone in the market again thanks to a new antenna on top of the Empire State Building, replacing the one that was lost when the World Trade Center towers were destroyed Sept. 11.